Gooch makes history
1990 - England captain Graham Gooch hit a magnificent 333, the sixth highest score in Test cricket history, to submerge India beneath a sea of records on the second day of the first Test at Lord’s in London. Gooch came within 33 runs of breaking Sir Garfield Sobers’ world record of 365 as England amassed 653 for four declared, a record for Tests between England and India. The 37-year-old Gooch, 194 not out overnight, surpassed the highest score ever made by a Test captain, the most by any batsman in first-class cricket at Lord’s and became only the fifth Englishman to strike 300 in a Test match. When he was finally bowled, off-stump, by Manoj Prabhakar, he had batted for 10 hours 33 minutes, hitting three sixes and 43 fours in his 485-ball stay at the crease.
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